Three locations—Spain, a Baltic Sea resort in Lithuania and a forest in Lower Austria—become the stage for an exploration of how landscapes are seen, heard and remembered. Shot on 16mm film using successive red, green and blue exposures, the images layer different moments into a fictional cinematic time, while the soundtrack reshapes the natural world into an imagined acoustic space. The film invites viewers to reconsider what constitutes nature and how perception itself is constructed. 

Continuing the exploration begun in NYC RGB (2023), Austrian experimental documentary filmmaker Viktoria Schmid uses the materiality of analogue media, light, and color to create images that stimulate the senses. Her style comes alive through multiple exposure and three-color filters, dissolving the boundary between the natural and the artificial. Taking red, green, and blue as its central protagonists, Rojo Žalia Blau explores space and offers an audiovisual experience charged with meaning, observing architectural forms through the camera lens.
Shot on 16mm, the film stock passed through the camera three times at precisely calculated intervals. The result is a kaleidoscopic, three-dimensional effect that subtly translates the natural into the artificial. The beaches and forests Schmid records appear in unexpected colors and contours, producing an elemental sensation that feels at once organic and entirely new.

In her explorations of analog color film techniques, Viktoria Schmid devotes herself in Rojo Žalia Blau (Red, Green, Blue in Spanish, Lithuanian, German) to the three-strip Technicolor process. In her homage, instead of three different film strips exposed simultaneously, it is one and the same strip with which the same motif is filmed in succession (and through different color filters).

• Cinematography Viktoria SCHMID
• Edit Viktoria SCHMID
• Sound Liew NIYOMKARN
• Music Liew NIYOMKARN

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